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Runaway Croatian businessman questioned by Bosnian Serb police

Autor: mses
SARAJEVO, June 22 (Hina) - Businessman Drazen Golemovic, who is wanted in Croatia for corruption and bribery he reportedly gave to police and customs officials, has confirmed that during this weekend he was brought in to a police station in Banja Luka, for questioning about his alleged connections with Balkan mobsters, the Banja Luka-based Nezavisne Novine newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Golemovic fled Croatia to Banja Luka last October after he was released from police custody where he was detained on suspicion of involvement in giving bribes police and customs officials and local prosecutors. He and another eight Croatian citizens are indicted by the national anti-corruption agency (USKOK) for corruption, bribery, abuse of office and powers, illegal kickbacks and transactions in the case dubbed "Ypsilon". Golemovic holds Bosnian citizenship as he was born in the northern Bosnian town of Derventa and therefore he cannot be handed over back to Croatia.

Golemovic told the Banja Luka paper that he had been interviewed by the Bosnian Serb police on Sunday for three hours.

"The police asked me whether I knew Darko Saric and Zoran Copic and whether I heard about any plans to assassinate Ivica Dacic (Serbia's Interior Minister)," Golemovic was quoted by the media as saying.

A police source speaking on condition of anonymity already told the Bosnian Serb entity's media that during Serbian Minister Dacic's visit to Banja Luka on Sunday, security was raised to the highest level due to fears that members of the gang of the fleeing narco-boss Darko Saric, 44, could try to kill the minister.

Golemovic said he did not know Saric and that he knew Copic only by sight. Copic reportedly sits on the managing boards of seven companies owned by Saric.

Golemovic, who claims that he is innocent of the charges placed against him in Croatia, has been under police surveillance since he arrived in Bosnia.

Before he fled Croatia he lived in the Istrian village of Vrvari near the coastal town of Porec. Golemovic married the widow of Vjeko Slisko, who was killed in a Mafia-style assassination in downtown Zagreb several years ago.

(Hina) ms

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